Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 76 Pricing
Yuri Burns temporarily had a second-class wizard apprentice serve customers in the shop, and led Locke into the reception room inside the Lijin Secret Language.

A cup of fragrant Angora tea was placed in front of Locke.

Locke knew that this tea was a special wizard tea cultivated by breeders. Wizards who regularly drank Anglura tea could even gradually reduce the mental deterioration caused by the overuse of potions and other magical resources.

However, this tea is expensive, and very few second-level wizard apprentices can afford to drink it every day.

Locke took a sip, and at the same time, Yuri Burns pushed a contract in front of him. Yuri said, "Locke, the breeder, magical plants like the Iron Wire Goosegrass have a significant impact on many tricks during the apprentice stage, so they are certainly very valuable. But as far as I know, the seed production rate of Goosegrass is extremely high, and it is a consumable in various trick models."

"It is different from magic vine seeds and magic vine seedlings."

Locke nodded. "That's true."

"But the magical plants I bring to sell have all been treated to be seedless."

Seedless technology is a skill that every breeding assistant should know. After all, if someone buys a magical plant and it produces seeds, some poorer wizard apprentices might try to hatch the seeds themselves.

Therefore, breeders use enchanted runes when selling magical plants or magical plant seeds to prevent the magical plant from producing seeds, thus avoiding this situation.

To some extent, the emergence of this technology is also to prevent special magical plants cultivated by large-scale breeders from invading the natural environment, causing the magical plants to go out of control, and leading to an event similar to the [Abyssal Plant Cataclysm] that occurred fifty years ago at the Blue Ring Society.

Yuri Burns laughed, “Locke breeder, the price of similar Deer Bone Grass seeds sold by Lijin Secret Language is 1 magic stone per gram.”

"According to our previous trading rules, we will also purchase your Iron Wire Eleusine seeds at 1 magic stone per gram. What do you think?"

"After all, this isn't a magic vine. Magic vines are magical plants that can be used for a long time, while these are consumable magic grass seeds."

Locke weighed the options in his mind.

He can accept this result.

Because the magic model that comes with the Deer Bone Grass Seed is definitely of a higher level than the Wild Grass Entanglement, it will be slightly more expensive.

Therefore, selling 1 gram of Iron Wire Goosegrass Seed for 1 Magic Stone is still quite reasonable.

The seed production rate of Eleusine indica is very high.

Furthermore, even the almond wood chips that come with the plant-based ordinary meditation method only cost 15 magic stones per gram.

One gram of Eleusine indica seeds contains approximately 100 seeds, which is equivalent to the amount needed for two applications of weed wrapping.

A second-class wizard apprentice, just by practicing, should be able to cast spells more than a hundred times a month, which means they would need at least fifty magic stones.

It would take him at least six months to learn it from scratch, and practicing entirely with iron wire and goosegrass would cost him over three hundred magic stones.

This is already a lot of money.

Of course, this second-class wizard apprentice could also practice weed-entwining magic tricks using some cheap, ineffective magic plant seeds first.

For example, using the most common [Wintergreen Grass Seed], which costs 1 magic stone to buy dozens of grams of that magical plant seed, it is one of the most commonly used cheap magical plant seeds for poor second-class wizard apprentices to practice their plant magic tricks.

However, the practice wasn't very effective, and the learning efficiency was somewhat low. Generally speaking, second-tier wizard apprentices, if they want to save money when learning a spell, use cheap holly seeds in the early and mid-stages, and then use more expensive consumable plant seeds in the later stages.

Even so, the final cost of purchasing Iron Wire Tendon Grass would be at least a hundred magic stones.

They are unlikely to spend too much money to learn how to use it in combat, since the white wizards have limited combat experience.

But little by little, it adds up, and this is a business that can sustain you for a very long time.

Locke did some mental calculations: a single goosegrass plant could produce some seeds every day, adding up to at least 5 grams per month.

To ensure the quality of the goosegrass, about fifty plants can be planted per acre.

If I plant another ten acres, I can earn an amazing 2,500 magic stones a month!
Of course, his plantation would need to be expanded, and he would need to add manpower and equipment. But now that he was a first-class wizard apprentice, he was supposed to expand the plantation.

Moreover, there is another difference between the Iron Wire Goosegrass and the Super Mandragora: it is suitable for matching magic tricks, and more wizard apprentices learn from it.

With the help of the Chimera Market, Locke can not only sell to wizard apprentices at Lilith's Hut, but also to wizard apprentices from other wizarding organizations.

Apprentices who learn the Vine Hands technique only make up a small portion of botanical wizarding apprentices, but almost every botanical wizarding apprentice will eventually be able to entwine with wild grass or entangle with green bushes.

These two spells, especially the Wild Grass Entanglement, are classic botanical magic tricks, particularly suitable for controlling enemies. They are extremely useful for fighting, escaping, imprisoning, and controlling.

It's not difficult to learn, and it doesn't consume much mana, making it very cost-effective.

It is even more widely used than the Vine Hands spell series.

Therefore, there is no shortage of buyers for the seeds of Eleusine indica.

Moreover, this thing is a consumable, unlike magical plants such as magic vines, which can easily lead to market saturation.

Locke picked up the contract and signed it.

Yuri Burns felt relieved when Locke signed the contract.

She smiled broadly. Now, with Locke, most of the problem she had faced regarding the poor sales of Lijin Secret was solved.

Yuri Burns felt a surge of gratitude towards Locke. "Locke, thank you, my friend. From today onward, you are my friend."

“Some of the higher-ranking breeders at Lijin Secret Language, as well as the vice president of the Breeders Association, often come here,” Yuri said, spreading her hands. “I will let them know what an outstanding breeder you are.”

"I believe you will get your breeder certificate soon."

Locke smiled and looked curiously at Yuri's face. He hadn't been very close to Yuri before, so he hadn't dared to ask, but according to what he had heard later, Yuri was probably not even thirty years old yet.

Why do you look so old?

Locke hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Yuri, by the way, I've always wanted to ask you, why do you look so old?"

(End of this chapter)